World IN BRIEF : CHINA : Troops Reportedly Sent to Xinjiang
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From Times staff and Wire reports
China has sent troops into a remote northwest border region near the Soviet Union to quell ethnic unrest among Muslim Uighurs, Chinese sources said. There were no accounts of casualties and few details from the border in the Xinjiang region. However, the area is adjacent to Soviet Asian republics torn by ethnic violence earlier this year. The sources said that several hundred Uighurs rioted Friday and that rioting continues.
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